after combe william (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Green cloth bound, hardback book with gilt decoration on front board, and gilt titles on spine. This wonderful old book, is in good condition, and as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. 354 pages, all intact and a good binding, all pages, text and beautiful illustrations are in good, clean, readable order. Corners of boards slightly worn and bumped. Previous owners own label, with name pf owner and black & white drawing printed. Pencil signature on title page. "The Original Edition, Complete and Unabridged, With the Life and Adventures of the Author, Now First Written, By John Camden Hotten". No specific published date, assuming its around 1868 to 1869 as the back of the book, is "a list of very important new books, special list for 1869". 80 x stunning illustrations by Rowlandson. A fabulous book that has stood the test of time and deserves to be preserved for future literary generations.

Hardcover. Third Edition. Quarto, iv, [2], 319 pages. With 20 hand-colored engraved plates, including frontispiece and title page. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt ornamentation to boards, board edges, turn ins, and spine; green leather labels bearing gilt titling to spine. Light plus bumping and rubbing to corners of boards and light plus rubbing to joints; splits starting at joints. Spine labels sunned almost to brown. All text block edges gilt and still bright. Text block lightly age toned. Pencil annotations to first and second front free endpapers. Moderate offsetting to blank sheets inserted opposite plates. EH Consignment. 1381642. Special Collections - Downstairs.

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. First edition. A knock off of the hugely popular Dr. Syntax trilogy, with additional inspiration presumably coming from Boswell's account of his tour of Scotland in the company of Samuel Johnson. Abbey, Life 277. Tooley 433. Prideaux p. 334. 251 pp. with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after Thomas Rowlandson). Bound in half brown calfskin leather and marble, gilt lettering and tooling, top edge stained blue, marbled design on others. Provenance: bookplate with coat of arms of G. J. Crosbie Dawson, Chief Engineer to the North Staffordshire Railway Company. Rubbing to the edges. 6" - 9½". Book.

London, J. Johnston, no date (1820), 3rd ed. (part 1-2)/ 2nd ed. (part 3-7)/ 1st ed. (part 1), in 8 separate parts as originally published, (6 advert.),319,(3)p., handcoloured aquatint title-page.